Add your name: Demand that NAFTA renegotiations benefit working people, not corporate power

Add your name: Demand that NAFTA renegotiations benefit working people, not corporate power

Add your name


By signing this petition, you agree to receive email updates from some of the below participating organizations (no more than four). You can, of course, opt out of receiving these updates at any time.

Participating Organizations:
AFL-CIO
Corporate Accountability International
Citizens Trade Campaign
Daily Kos
Economic Policy Institute
Food & Water Action Fund
Friends of the Earth
Good Jobs Nation
International Labor Rights Forum
Jobs With Justice
Just Foreign Policy
Our Revolution
People Demanding Action
Progressive Congress Action Fund
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
SumOfUs

The Trump administration officially notified Congress it will be renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

NAFTA made it easier for corporations to offshore jobs and to attack environmental, health, and other safeguards.

It killed jobs and depressed wages for millions. Hundreds of corporate advisors helped negotiate it behind closed doors.

Tell the U.S. Trade Representative now: Replace NAFTA with a deal that actually benefits working people in all three countries, not just multinational corporations.

If enough of us speak out, we can stop corporate elites from calling the shots and put an end to their rigged, devastating trade deals.

Dear USTR Robert Lighthizer:

Your renegotiation of NAFTA is an opportunity to stop its ongoing damage and create a deal that benefits working people, not just big corporations.

That is why we call on you to meet these criteria in any new agreement with Canada and Mexico:

  1. Institute a democratic, accountable, and transparent negotiating process without privileged backroom access for corporate interests.

  2. Eliminate the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, which promotes job offshoring and gives multinational corporations power to sue the U.S. government before a tribunal of three corporate lawyers. These lawyers can order U.S. taxpayers to pay corporations unlimited sums of money, including for the loss of expected future profits.

  3. Include strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards, not the ineffective rules found in deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

  4. Require all imported food, goods, and services in the agreement to meet strong domestic safety and environmental rules.

  5. Eliminate rules that waive important Buy American and Buy Local policies.

  6. Eliminate rules that drive up the cost of life-saving medicines by giving pharmaceutical companies extended monopolies on drug patents.